{"id":155125,"date":"2025-03-13T20:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T19:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:05:16","slug":"rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara","title":{"rendered":"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed one of the reasons he can\u2019t make peace with Governor Similayi Fubara of Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p>Wike accused Fubara of removing a chief in his family and went ahead to make another person a chief.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Minister stated this on Wednesday while fielding questions from journalists at a media parley in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes amid the ongoing political crisis in the State, with Wike and Governor Similayi Fubara at the center of the feud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes when you people talk about this peace, you don\u2019t take everything. You don\u2019t just sit outside to talk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at me, a former governor, Minister of of the FCT, Governor (Fubara) had the temerity, the audacity, because he has money from federation account, because he has more Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), will enter my own family to remove a chief and make another person a chief,\u201d Wike said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed one of the reasons he can\u2019t make peace with Governor Similayi Fubara of Rivers State. Wike accused Fubara of removing a chief in his family and went ahead to make another person a chief. The FCT Minister stated this on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":155124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[10074,254,11720,454],"class_list":["post-155125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-fubara","tag-nigeria","tag-rivers-crisis","tag-wike"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed one of the reasons he can\u2019t make peace with Go ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed one of the reasons he can\u2019t make peace with Go ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-13T19:10:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-25T19:05:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"676\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-13T19:10:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-25T19:05:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Fubara\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rivers crisis\",\"Wike\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara\",\"name\":\"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-13T19:10:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-25T19:05:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed one of the reasons he can\u2019t make peace with Go ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":676,\"caption\":\"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara - Nigeria","description":"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed one of the reasons he can\u2019t make peace with Go ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara","og_description":"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed one of the reasons he can\u2019t make peace with Go ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-03-13T19:10:26+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-03-25T19:05:16+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":676,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara","datePublished":"2025-03-13T19:10:26+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-25T19:05:16+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara"},"wordCount":185,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg","keywords":["Fubara","Nigeria","Rivers crisis","Wike"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara","name":"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg","datePublished":"2025-03-13T19:10:26+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-25T19:05:16+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has revealed one of the reasons he can\u2019t make peace with Go ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741885521.803717.jpg","width":1200,"height":676,"caption":"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/rivers-crisis-you-had-audacity-to-enter-my-family-remove-a-chief-wike-blasts-fubara#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Rivers crisis: You had audacity to enter my family, remove a chief \u2013 Wike blasts Fubara"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}